Then and now: A combination image at left shows student activist Chonthicha Jangrew arriving at a military court after being arrested in Bangkok in January 2016, and speaking at a Move Forward Party rally in Pathum Thani in March this year. At right, Piyarat “Toto” Chongthep jumps over a barricade during an anti-government protest in November 2020, and speaks during a Move Forward rally in Bangkok in March 12. (Photos: Reuters)
PATHUM THANI: Chonthicha “Lookkate” Jangrew is going door-to-door asking people to vote for her in the May 14 election even though she faces possible jail time on charges of sedition and royal defamation stemming from protests in 2020.
The 30-year-old is one of more than a dozen activists from a student-led protest movement who are taking their once-taboo cause from the streets to the ballot box as candidates in the election.
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